When Tipperary lost their last League game to Westmeath to round out a winless campaign, manager David Power fielded just three players from the 2020 Munster Championship winning side.
It’s been a difficult two and a half years or so for them since that momentous victory over Cork on a poignant weekend that marked the centenary of Bloody Sunday, Tipp football’s, and indeed the GAA’s, darkest day.
In the meantime, they’ve now been relegated to Division Four twice, their only Championship win has come against Waterford while Carlow knocked them out in the first round of last year’s Tailteann Cup.
